{"id":3883,"date":"2023-10-30T09:53:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T08:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondation-foujita.org\/happy-birthday-marie-laurencin\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T10:59:24","slug":"happy-birthday-marie-laurencin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondation-foujita.org\/en\/happy-birthday-marie-laurencin\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday Marie Laurencin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tribute<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Happy 140th<\/sup> birthday Marie Laurencin<\/h2>\n

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Today, October 31, 2023<\/strong>, we pay tribute to Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)<\/strong>,
\none of the few women artists who were members of the Parisian avant-garde
\n<\/strong>and participated in the birth of modern art<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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But what’s the link between Laurencin and Foujita?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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MARIE LAURENCIN, AN AVANT-GARDE ARTIST<\/strong><\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]A natural child born 140 years ago, on October 31 1883 in Paris, Marie Laurencin attended the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre<\/strong> as soon as she finished school. She’s not yet 25. Her friends at the time included Georges Braque<\/strong>, Pablo Picasso<\/strong> and Andr\u00e9 Derain<\/strong>. She became the muse of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire<\/strong>, who dedicated some of his poems to her, and sold her first work to Gertrude Stein<\/strong>, the famous American collector.<\/p>\n

A free-spirited woman artist, she developed a highly personal style, somewhere between Fauvism and Cubism1<\/sup>, with a modernity underpinned by a palette of cameos in greys, blues and pinks, framed by blacks. Thanks to her art dealer Paul Rosenberg<\/strong>, Anne Sinclair’s grandfather, she gained international recognition<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]1Artistic movements<\/sup>that emerged at the beginning of the 20th<\/sup> century: the former advocated color rather than drawing, as was customary in art at the time, while the latter placed the geometrization of subjects at the heart of its works.<\/em><\/small>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”3365″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”left-to-right” el_class=”foujita_img_shadow_box”][vc_column_text]Marie Laurencin, Apollinaire et ses amis (2nd version)<\/em>, 1909, Centre Pompidou collection, Mus\u00e9e national d’art moderne, Paris
\nFrom left to right: Gertrude Stein (collector), Fernande Olivier (Picasso’s muse), an unidentified woman, Fricka (Picasso’s dog), Guillaume Apollinaire in the center, Pablo Picasso, Marguerite Gillot (poet), Maurice Cremnitz (poet) and Marie Laurencin herself at the piano.<\/small>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]During the 1920s, Marie Laurencin painted personalities from the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, such as Coco Chanel<\/strong>, designed the sets and costumes for the ballet Les Biches <\/em>with music by Francis Poulenc<\/strong> (1899-1963) and a script by the poet Jean Cocteau<\/strong> (1889-1963) for the Ballets Russes, illustrates the works of poets and writers such as Andr\u00e9 Gide<\/strong>, Paul Morand<\/strong>… These are just some of the opportunities for Foujita to cross paths and forge a lasting friendship<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”3333″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”slideInRight” el_class=”foujita_img_shadow_box droite”][vc_empty_space height=”64px”][vc_column_text el_class=”titre_sympa” css=”.vc_custom_1698390562364{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

A LEGACY FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES<\/strong><\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]At the end of her life in 1956, Marie Laurencin bequeathed her entire estate to her adopted daughter Suzanne Moreau-Laurencin<\/strong>, who in turn designated the Fondation Apprentis d’Auteuil as her successor after her death in the 1970s.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Following the creation Fondation Foujita<\/a> in 2011, in order to support its initiatives to provide access to art for the most vulnerable young people and families, the Board of Directors ofApprentis d’Auteuil<\/a> has decided to systematically allocate the royalties collected and to be collected by Apprentis d’Auteuil to the Fondation Foujita.<\/strong>Unless otherwise stipulated by the donor\/testator.
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